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an agent or attorney of such claimant or applicant, on the issue of a certificate of pension or the granting of a bounty or allow ance, the Commissioner of Pensions shall forthwith notify the applicant or claimant that such certificate has been issued or allowance made, and the amount thereof.

SEC. 10. That the pilots, engineers, sailors, and crews upon the gunboats and war-vessels of the United States, who have not been regularly mustered into the service of the United States, shall be entitled to the same bounty allowed to persons of corresponding rank in the naval service, provided they continue in service to the close of the present war; and all persons serving as aforesaid, who have been or may be wounded or incapacitated for service, shall be entitled to receive for such disability the pension allowed by the provisions of this act to those of like rank, and each and every such person shall receive pay according to corresponding rank in the naval service: Provided, That no person receiving pension or bounty under the provisions of this act shall receive either pension or bounty for any other service in the present war.

SEC. 11. That the widows and heirs of all persons described in the last preceding section who have been or may be employed as aforesaid, or who have been or may be killed in battle, or of those who have died or shall die of wounds received while so employed, shall be paid the bounty and pension allowed by the provisions of this act, according to rank, as provided in the last preceding section.

SEC. 12. That the secretary of the interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a special agent for the pension office, to assist in the detection of frauds against the pension laws, to cause persons committing such frauds to be prosecuted, and to discharge such other duties as said secretary may require him to perform; which said agent shall receive for his services an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; and his actual travelling expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties shall be paid by the government.

SEC. 13. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. [Approved, July 14, 1862.]

[By section 13 of the "Act to establish and equalize the grades of line officers of the United States navy," approved July 16, 1862, chap. 13, vol. 12, p. 53, the relative rank be tween officers of the navy and the army shall be as follows, lineal rank only to be considered:

Rear-admirals with major-generals.
Commodores with brigadier-generals.
Captains with colonels.

Commanders with lieutenant-colonels.
Lieutenant-commanders with majors.
Lieutenants with captains.

Masters with first lieutenants.
Ensigns with second lieutenants ]

CHAPTER 10.-Approved, July 16, 1862-Vol. 12, p. 577.

An Act to prevent members of Compress and officers of the government of the United Staten from taking cont deration for p scuring contracts, office, or place, from the United States, and for other purposes,

That any member of Congress or any officer of the government of the United States who shall, directly or indirectly, take, receive, or agree to receive, any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatsoever, from any person or persons, for procuring, or aiding to procure, any contract, office, or place, from the government of the United States or any department thereof, or from any officer of the United States, for any person or persons whatsoever, or for giving any such contract, office, or place to any person whomsoever, and the person or persons. who shall, directly or indirectly, offer or agree to give, or give or bestow, any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatsoever, for the procuring or aiding to procure any contract, office, or place, as aforesaid, and any member of Congress who shall, directly or indirectly, take, receive, or agree to receive, any money, property, or other valuable consideration whatsoever after his election as such member, for his attention to, services, action, vote, or decision on, any question, matter, cause, or proceeding which may then be pending, or may by law or under the Constitution of the Un tel States be brought before him in

his official capacity, or in his place of trust and profit as such member of Congress, shall, for every such offence, be liable to indictment as for a misdemeanor in any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, and, on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court trying the same; and any such contract or agreement as aforesaid may, at the option of the President of the United States, be declared absolutely null and void; and any member of Congress or officer of the United States convicted as aforesaid shall, moreover, be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the government of the United States.

[Approved, July 16, 1862.]

CHAPTER 190.-Approved, July 16, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 589.

An Act prohibiting the confinement of persons in the military service of the United States in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, except as a punishment for certain crimes, and to discharge therefrom certain convicts by sentence of courts-martial, and for other purposes.

That hereafter no person in the military service of the United States, convicted and sentenced by a court-martial, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, unless the offence of which such person may be convicted would by some statute of the United States, or at common law, as the same exists in the said District, subject such convict to said punishment.

SEC. 2. That all such persons in the military service, as aforesaid, who have heretofore been or may hereafter be convicted and sentenced by a court-martial for any offence which, if tried before the criminal court of said District, would not subject such person to imprisonment in said penitentiary, and who are now or may hereafter be confined therein, shall be discharged from said imprisonment, upon such terms and conditions of further punishment as the President of the United States may, in his discretion, impose as a commutation of said sentence.

SEC. 3. That upon the application of any citizen of the United

States, supported by his oath, alleging that a person or persons in the military service, as aforesaid, is confined in said penitentiary under the sentence of a court-martial for any offence not punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary by the authority of the criminal court aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the judge of said court, or, in case of his absence or inability, of one of the judges of the circuit court of said District, if upon an inspection of the record of proceedings of said court-martial he shall find the facts to be as alleged in said application, immediately to issue the writ of habeas corpus to bring before him the said convict; and if, upon an investigation of the case, it shall be the opinion of such judge that the case of such convict is within the provisions of the previous sections of this act, he shall order such convict to be confined in the common jail of said District, until the decision of the President of the United States as to the commutation aforesaid shall be filed in said court, and then such convict Shall be disposed of and suffer such punishment as by said commutation of his said sentence may be imposed.

SEC. 4. That no person convicted upon the decision of a courtmartial shall be confined in any penitentiary in the United States, except under the conditions of this act.

[Approved, July 16, 1862.]

CHAPTER 195.-Approved, July 17, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 589. An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes.1

That every person who shall hereafter commit the crime of treason against the United States, and shall be adjudged guilty thereof, shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made free; or, at the discretion of the court, he shall be imprisoned for not less than five years and fined not less than ten thousand dollars, and all his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made free; said fine shall be levied and collected on any or all of the property, real and personal, excluding slaves, of which the said person so convicted was the owner at the time of com

1 See Resolution No. 63, 17 July, 1862, explanatory of this act, the passage of which was necessary to secure the approval of this act (195).

CHAPTER 166.-Approved, July 14, 1862.-Vol. 12, p. 566.

An Act to grant pensions.

That if any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private of the army, including regulars, volunteers, and militia, or any officer, warrant or petty officer, musician, seaman, ordinary seaman, flotilla-man, marine, clerk, landsman, pilot, or other person in the navy or marine corps, has been, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, or shall hereafter be, disabled by reason of any wound received or disease contracted while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty, he shall, upon making due proof of the fact according to such forms and regulations as are or may be provided by or in pursuance of law, be placed upon the list of invalid pensions of the United States, and be entitled to receive, for the highest rate of disability, such pension as is hereinafter provided in such cases, and for an inferior disability an amount proportionate to the highest disability, to commence as hereinafter provided and continue during the existence of such disability. The pension for a total disability for officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates employed in the military service of the United States, whether regulars, volunteers, or militia, and in the marine corps, shall be as follows, viz. : Lieutenant-colonel, and all officers of a higher rank, thirty dollars per month; major, twenty-five dollars per month; captain, twenty dollars per month; first lieutenant, seventeen dollars per month; second lieutenant, fifteen dollars per month; and non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, eight dollars per month. The pension for total disability for officers, warrant or petty officers, and others employed in the naval service of the United States, shall be as follows, viz.: Captain, commander, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively, ranking with commander by law, lieutennant commanding, and master commanding, thirty dollars per month; lieutenant, surgeon, paymaster, and chief engineer, respectively, ranking with lieutenant by law, and passed assistant surgeon, twenty-five dollars per month; professor of mathematics, master, assistant surgeon, assistant paymaster, and chaplain, twenty dollars per month; first assistant engineers and pilots, fifteen dollars per month; passed midshipman, midship

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